Dr. Dinee Simpson tweeted on March 8 that she was having a rough morning and then ran into a woman when she stopped to purchase some coffee. The woman was one of the doctor’s former transplant patients who was extremely sick.

“Having a bad morning, stopped for coffee. Woman next to me stared at my ID badge and started to cry. I did her liver transplant last year, she was so sick then. Today she had her hair did, makeup on, and looked FABULOUS. Unrecognizable. Gave me the BEST hug. I love this job,” Simpson wrote.

Having a bad morning, stopped for coffee. Woman next to me stared at my ID badge and started to cry. I did her liver transplant last year, she was so sick then. Today she had her hair did, makeup on, and looked FABULOUS. Unrecognizable. Gave me the BEST hug.

I love this job💕

— Dinee Simpson MD, FACS (@DineeMD) March 8, 2022

Simpson is the first and only Black woman transplant surgeon that works at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reports.

After Simpson wrote about the touching moment, she proceeded to perform a surgery, not expecting that her tweet would accumulate more than 273,000 likes on Twitter, according to Because of Them We Can.

“I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is crazy.’ … Then I just watched it grow, and it was insane,” Simpson said, according to Newsweek.

Simpson utilizes her Black girl magic beyond surgery to further save lives through her African American Transplant Access Program at Northwestern, which she founded to help facilitate accessibility of transplants for Black patients, WGN 9 reports.

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